Meier Corroboration #225

In a world first, a cosmic ‘speed camera’ just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets

March 31st, 2024

How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the speed of light, as our team has just revealed in a new study published in Nature.

Energetic cosmic beams known as jets are seen throughout our universe. They are launched when material—mainly dust and gas—falls in towards any dense central object, such as a neutron star (an extremely dense remnant of a once-massive star) or a black hole.

The jets carry away some of the gravitational energy released by the infalling gas, recycling it back into the surroundings on far larger scales.

The most powerful jets in the universe come from the biggest black holes at the centers of galaxies. The energy output of these jets can affect the evolution of an entire galaxy, or even a galaxy cluster. This makes jets a critical, yet intriguing, component of our universe.

Interestingly, the jet speed we measured was close to the “escape speed” from a neutron star. On Earth, this escape speed is 11.2 kilometers per second—what rockets need to achieve to break free of Earth’s gravity. For a neutron star, that value is around half the speed of light.

full article by James Miller-Jones, The Conversation

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FIGU Bulletin Date: June 1996 (English Edition: February 1998)

DISCOVERIES IN SPACE

As early as December 1995, astronomers noticed a mysterious object in space which sent strong X-ray signals into the universe every hour, in a way similar to a light house. First mention regarding these suspiciously regular radio signals was offered in 1968, when British astronomers became capable of picking up such signals. Headlines at the time read “Contact Made with Little Green Men,” for everyone was convinced that only an extraterrestrial intelligence could transmit such signals in a regular pattern. It was not long, however, before theoretical astrophysicists found a less spectacular, yet no less fascinating explanation for the phenomenon, namely, that the signals were sent by a rapidly rotating remnant of a collapsed star, a pulsating radio star — a pulsar. Early in December 1995, astronomers discovered a new type of pulsar in the vicinity of the Milky Way’s center that emits light within the more energetic, shorter-waved X-ray range. Approximately every hour the pulsar sends out an enormous X-ray pulse. The pulsar was detected by a research satellite specifically constructed for the purpose of examining long-observed X-ray flashes, which occasionally and unexpectedly flare up in the universe only to immediately subside again.

The newly discovered pulsar initially sent its X-ray flashes at one-second intervals, then every few minutes, and after two days then once an hour. Thereafter it entered an odd pattern of behavior displaying several variations which were previously attributed to various celestial objects. Currently this pulsar is the strongest known X-ray source in the sky.

At this point, mystery surrounds the mechanism by which these rhythmic X-ray flashes occur; but this much we do know: This cosmic X-ray light house is a dual-star system comprising a small neutron star of immense mass and a lighter-weight companion star. It is presumed that the lighter star intermittently loses some of its matter, while the neutron star “siphons” it off. This process causes the material to accelerate to approximately 150,000 kilometers/ sec. [93,750 mps], or half the speed of light. Thereupon, the material crashes to the surface of the neutron star, generating a temperature of approximately 1 billion degrees Celsius [1.8 billion F], hot enough to discharge X-ray flashes one million times brighter than our sun.

Billy

Artists depiction of Nuclear explosions on a neutron star feed its jets. Credit: Danielle Futselaar and Nathalie Degenaar, Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam, CC BY-SA

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Additional information:

March 3rd, 2012. CR 537

Billy:

I do not doubt it either. But something else: On the 27th of December 2004, a powerful flash of energy from outer space was registered, and already about 450 million years ago, the Earth was hit by a flash of energy, or a gamma ray, respectively, which was not very strong, but it did a lot of harm, as Quetzal explained to me. What I am interested in is what actually happens when a very strong flash of gamma lightning respectively gamma radiation hits the Earth, and how does such a flash of energy come about, if you can explain the whole thing a bit simply?

Ptaah:

31. Gamma ray flashes have an extremely destructive effect when they hit planets.

32. If, for example, the Earth were struck with the full energy of a gigantic flash of gamma radiation, the origin of which would be far less than 10 million light-years away, then the Earth’s atmosphere as well as all electrical and electronic equipment would be completely destroyed and all life would be wiped out.

33. The phenomena of such high-energy flashes, as you call them, have various causes; for example, gamma-ray bursts are caused by a nuclear collapse of massive suns, but also by the fusion of two neutron stars, or by the fusion of a neutron star with a black hole in an extragalactic star system.

December 2nd, 1987. CR 220

Billy:

Nice outlooks. So let’s talk about something else. I still have a question regarding neutron stars, which exhibit the greatest density in matter, as our scientists say. A thimble full of such a neutron star should weigh, as they say, about a billion (1,000,000,000) tons. I would like to ask whether they have not made a mistake in the weight, for I find a billion (1,000,000,000) tons somewhat steep.

Quetzal:

55. Nevertheless, it is of correctness.

56. However, it is to be rectified that neutron stars do not exhibit the densest and heaviest mass but rather other objects in the material Universe.

57. The matter of these tremendously heavier objects is also of a different kind than what is known to the earthly physical scientists and astrophysical scientists as well as astrophysical chemists.

Billy:

Aha, and what do you call these objects, and at the same time, does it concern stars?

Quetzal:

58. The second part of your question is to be affirmed in the way that, as a rule, it concerns former stars, so collapsed solar structures.

59. But still, such objects also exist in the form of still active suns.

60. We call the collapsed structures ‘Meton-Darthelos’, which translated into your language means ‘Dark Heavy Suns’.

61. We call the still active suns of this kind ‘Saten-Darthelos’, so ‘Radiant Heavy Suns’ or ‘Active Heavy Suns’.

62. These names correspond to traditions from very early times of our people.

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